BJJ News

Community Confirms ADCC 2026 Feels Different: This Year After Running Out of Champions to Withdraw

Aug 19, 2026 · adcc, competition

The ADCC Submission-Only World Championship used to be the one tournament nobody wanted to skip. Then, slowly, it became the one tournament everybody had a very specific reason to skip—and the reasons got better every time.

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Elisabeth Clay Just Exposed ADCC's Circular Math on Women's Pay

Aug 14, 2026 · adcc, competition

Elisabeth Clay made a simple argument on the Jits and Giggles Podcast that ADCC has been avoiding: you can't cap participation, then use that artificial scarcity as justification for cutting pay. It's not a novel observation—it's basic logic.

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ADCC-Invited Mateusz Gamrot Gets Submitted in Round 1 Three Weeks Before He's Supposed to Compete at Worlds

Aug 14, 2026 · adcc, competition-results

Mateusz Gamrot got submitted in Round 1 at UFC Vegas 120 on August 8. Quillan Salkilld caught him in a rear naked choke at 4:25.

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ADCC Youth Championship Stands Alone for First Time

Aug 09, 2026 · adcc, competition

For fifteen years, ADCC Youth existed in the shadow of the main event. Kids would grind their brackets on the side while the adults got the main stage, the live stream, the sponsorship money.

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ADCC Worlds 2026 Is Losing Athletes to UFC BJJ — Double-Gold Winner Just Chose the Commercial Event Over the Crown Jewel

Aug 06, 2026 · adcc, athlete-migration

Adele Fornarino, a double-gold ADCC medalist — the kind of credential that used to mean everything in grappling — withdrew from ADCC Worlds 2026. Not for a family emergency.

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Rafael Lovato Jr. Skipped ADCC 2026: 'I Won't Compete Against Younger Athletes For Free' — And He Had a Point

Aug 05, 2026 · adcc, athlete-pay

Rafael Lovato Jr., a 43-year-old veteran of elite grappling and MMA competition, announced he would skip ADCC 2026. His reason was direct: he was done competing against twenty-somethings without a paycheck.

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ADCC Youth Worlds Reshape Elite BJJ Pipeline

Aug 04, 2026 · academy-pipeline, adcc

There's a tournament happening in Austin this weekend that nobody outside the sport is going to watch, and that's exactly the point. The ADCC Youth World Championships are coming to Texas with the quiet inevitability of a slow-motion takedown.

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ADCC Prize Money Is Shockingly Low — Jozef Chen's Take

Jul 27, 2026 · adcc, athlete-pay

Jozef Chen didn't mince words. He's one of the best no-gi grapplers alive—a multiple ADCC title contender, a submission machine, the kind of guy who dismantles everyone they put in front of him.

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